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10.4: Easily add the date to the menubar
Authored by: David Grossman on May 18, '05 11:35:00AM

Why is this not working for me? After I finished, my menu bar now reads: Wed 8:28 AM PDT

It should read: May 18 – Wed 8:28 AM This is exactly what is showing in the Times section of the International control panel. The pop-down is set to Medium. Not sure where it's getting the PDT thing since it wasn't dragged into the "well".



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10.4: Easily add the date to the menubar
Authored by: afranz on May 18, '05 11:39:13AM

same problem here, maybe deleting the .GlobalPreference file would help ?? Let me know if you have any luck.



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10.4: Easily add the date to the menubar
Authored by: kol on May 18, '05 12:05:25PM

Similar problem here. I've adjusted the "Medium" time format, and so that it looks like this:

Wed 5 Jan; 19:08

this should give me

Wed 18 May; 09:04

And what I get on the menubar is:

Wed 09:04 GMT-07:00

Any thoughts? Otherwise, it's back to wClock.

Kevin



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10.4: Easily add the date to the menubar
Authored by: RobertBen on May 20, '05 07:34:32PM

I had the +GMT issue as well and was almost back to wClock, so I just gave it some random tries and it turns out it needs the seconds in the Times section (though it won't display them) at least in my case.

I have the feeling this occurs with non U.S. settings (I started from the Dutch settings )



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10.4: Easily add the date to the menubar
Authored by: roballen on May 22, '05 11:45:06AM

Thanks for the tip, adding the seconds sorted out my clock problem.



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10.4: Easily add the date to the menubar
Authored by: tandemrepeat on May 18, '05 11:40:44AM

Whew - glad it's not just me....been going mad seeing exactly this problem...any workaround would be good as this is one thing I'd really like to do...



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10.4: Easily add the date to the menubar
Authored by: mozart11 on May 18, '05 11:57:31AM

Doesn't work on my PowerBook 1.67



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10.4: Easily add the date to the menubar
Authored by: robg on May 18, '05 12:03:28PM

A couple of thoughts...

1) If you happen to still be using a Developer Seed, if you were seeded, this won't work. I tried it there first (on build 4A25). It worked fine on my PowerBook and desktop.

2) Try changing the settings in the Date & Time panel first, just to make something happen. After that, try this hint.

3) Try dragging the time off the menubar, re-enabling it in Date & Time, and then try this.

Just some SWAGs to maybe help...

-rob.



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10.4: Easily add the date to the menubar
Authored by: tandemrepeat on May 18, '05 12:35:49PM

Nope - no luck...I'm using the general release of Tiger (10.4.1)

Even tried removing all other third party menu elements such as MaxMenus etc & tried changing Regions...no dice...

I find that the settings outlined in the original hint (cutting/pasting/modifying the desired formats into the Medium field) are not saved either. If I quit System Preferences and go back in, the settings revert to defaults...

Curious...



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10.4: Easily add the date to the menubar
Authored by: tandemrepeat on May 18, '05 12:39:22PM

Hmmm...it worked after I changed all the settings under the time section (Short, Medium, Long, Full) to be exacty the same field layout:

Now I get "Wed 12:38PM - May 18, 2005", as desired...



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10.4: Easily add the date to the menubar
Authored by: whoadoggy on May 18, '05 02:24:02PM

Easily add?
I too had major difficulty in getting this to stick. What eventually worked (I think) was to uncheck the show clock menubar (dragging it off didn't work!?!) and uncheck show day of week. Then I adjusted the medium time and it stuck.
Now how to make the font smaller?



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10.4: Easily add the date to the menubar
Authored by: David Grossman on May 18, '05 06:49:24PM

"tandemrepeat" was correct. I changed all the lengths (short, medium, long and full) to the same date string in the Times section of the International control panel. Then when I was done, I clicked on the Input Menu tab and the menu bar updated with the new format. You also have to uncheck the "Show day of the week" in the Date & Time control panel. Otherwise you get 2 "Wed" next to each other.

Not sure what horrible fallout this will have with other apps, but it's pretty sweet right now. :-)



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10.4: Easily add the date to the menubar
Authored by: Hart on May 21, '05 01:50:34PM

After trying to show this tip to my wife, I think I worked out a method that works.

1. Command click and drag the menu bar clock off the menu bar.

2. Follow the tip's steps, copying the day and date from the Dates > Customize section.

3. Follow the tip's steps, pasting the day and date into the time work area and then customizing as you like. (I left the seconds field in place, though it doesn't show in the menu bar.)

4. Go to Date & Time and check Show the date and time, uncheck Show the day of the week and uncheck Display the time with seconds.

That worked for each of our Macs.



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10.4: Easily add the date to the menubar
Authored by: Spam Bait on Jun 10, '05 01:05:40AM

Indeed your addition to the hint worked. Now I can see what day it is as I have a habit of forgetting what day it is(faulty memory :P ).

Your post should be appended to the hint to prevent any more "It's not working!" posts.



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10.4: Easily add the date to the menubar
Authored by: FOOOD on Jun 10, '05 04:07:38AM

Yea, I have the same problem. I get:

Wed 8:28 AM BDT
(I'm in the UK)

Guess I'll just stick with wClock to achieve the same thing.



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10.4: Easily add the date to the menubar
Authored by: Laudio on Mar 02, '06 07:08:03AM

I had the same problem with the Date & Time not showing as I had set it to show. I also had the CST show up & not disappear. What I did to FINALLY get the display right was.
1) Delete all info in all the workboxes (short, med, long & full) in both Date & Time Customize windows.
2) Set ALL workboxes in the Date window (short, med, long & full) to the same display by first dragging the elements that I wanted to the full workbox, then highlighting & copying the whole line, then deleting all info in all workboxes, then pasting the line back into all windows.
3) Then change to the Time window, paste the date info into the full window, drag the time elements that I wanted into the full window, then highlighting & copying the whole line, then deleting all info in all workboxes, then pasting the line back into all windows.
4) Now when I set the Time & Date preference to display in the menu bar, it showed 2 (days) for some reason. I had to go back & delete the (day) info in all the Time cusomize workboxes. Now The date shows up properly in the menu bar.
5) Note - When I deleted all the info in all windows the first time, the CST thing went away.

Hope this complicated way helped you too.



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